Education Quote by Walter Gilbert Download Open image “Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.” — Walter Gilbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Research Science
Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically -… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“The quest for human knowledge is quintessential element of being human, it's a part of our nature. We are all scientists and it's up… — Frank Huguenard Copy Share Image
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been . . . I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different… — David Blackwell Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To do suc cessful research, you don't need to know everything, you just, need to know one thing that isn't known. — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
Personally, I attach great importance to research in fundamental sciences because I believe that no applied or developmental research can do without basic research… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer,… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument based on… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
